Dutch architecture firm OMA has restored the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, adding new entrances and wood-panelled escalators to turn the 16th-century building into a department store (+ slideshow). More about OMA completes restoration of Venice's Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Movie: in this exclusive video interview, Bjarke Ingels explains how his firm BIG used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create a huge undulating structure on the lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery in London. More about Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is "mountainous outside and cavernous inside"
Footwear brand Converse has followed the redesign of its iconic Chuck Taylors with an update to the 1920 All Star, which replaces the shoe's signature canvas uppers with Nike's knitted Hyperfuse fabric (+ slideshow). More about Converse continues updates to classic designs with All Star Modern trainer
A team of architects in Chicago has proposed a house made of 3D-printed plastic and carbon-fibre panels wrapped around glazed walls (+ slideshow). More about WATG wins competition to design freeform 3D-printed house
Swedish firm White Arkitekter has won a competition to design a cultural centre and hotel in Skellefteå, Sweden, with its proposal for the "tallest wooden building in the Nordic countries" (+ slideshow). More about White Arkitekter selected to build timber-framed high-rise in Sweden
Comments update: readers have been discussing the ethics behind replica furniture this week after it emerged that discount supermarket Aldi was selling near-identical versions of a classic chair by Ray and Charles Eames. More about "Aren't the Aldi chairs closer to Eames' original design philosophy?"
Designer Asif Khan and architects Kunlé Adeyemi, Yona Friedman and Barkow Leibinger have each unveiled a Summer House at London's Serpentine Gallery, taking inspiration from a Neoclassical temple nearby (+ slideshow). More about Four temple-inspired Summer Houses built to accompany BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels has unveiled his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – a wall of translucent blocks that has been "unzipped" to create a curving, cavernous interior (+ slideshow). More about Bjarke Ingels completes Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that is "both solid box and blob"
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Dorothy to give five readers the chance to win a poster that illustrates a whimsical hidden world inside a 1984 Apple Macintosh computer (+ slideshow). More about Competition: win a Mac Cutaway poster by Dorothy
London Design Festival 2016: the organisers of the London Design Festival have scrapped plans for a designer crazy golf course in Trafalgar Square following the failure of its crowdfunding campaign. More about Trafalgar Square crazy golf project cancelled following failed Kickstarter campaign
The ArDe architecture and design fair, which was due to open at Somerset House in London this week, has been cancelled due to lack of sponsorship. More about ArDe design fair at Somerset House cancelled due to lack of sponsors
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Indian architect Anupama Kundoo has unveiled a prototype house that can be built in just six days using Lego-like blocks of a material called ferrocement (+ slideshow). More about Anupama Kundoo uses ferrocement to create pioneering "Lego-like" house
Instagrammers have been sharing images of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, conceived by Bjarke Ingels as an "unzipped" wall of bricks – including construction snaps by the Danish architect himself. More about Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion revealed on Instagram
Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten has added a contemporary extension to a traditional farmhouse in Austria, featuring rough-sawn spruce cladding and a folded fibre-cement roof (+ slideshow). More about Traditional farmhouse in Austria updated with contemporary extension
Norwegian designer Falke Svatun has crafted a range of stoneware vessels with cut-out bases, enabling them to balance on the edge of shelves or windowsills (+ movie). More about Falke Svatun's Tumble vase sits on the edge of a shelf
Global firm Gensler has proposed an alternative skyscraper concept for the waterfront site in Chicago where a spiralling, supertall condominium tower by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was slated to rise. More about Gensler unveils skyscraper design for site of Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire
A towering waterfall appears to fall from midair into the Grand Canal at the Palace of Versailles as part of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's latest exhibition (+ slideshow). More about Olafur Eliasson installs giant waterfall at Palace of Versailles
Dezeen will be reporting live from the unveiling of Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on Tuesday morning. Follow us on Facebook and Snapchat for exclusive video footage and images. More about Follow Dezeen live on Facebook and Snapchat from BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016
London Design Festival 2016: organisers of the London Design Festival are discussing the fate of its flagship crazy golf project for Trafalgar Square after a Kickstarter fundraising campaign looked set to fail to meet its target. More about Trafalgar Square crazy golf project for London Design Festival in doubt
For those who aren't able to visit BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion this summer, Swiss visualisation studio Archilogic has made it possible to take an unofficial tour of the building using virtual reality (+ interactive 3D model). More about Digital model offers virtual-reality users a preview of BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion